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been a delight to me just before harvest time to walk 

 in fine weather near the sea just to look at the red 

 gold of the ripe corn against the blue water. We 

 get a similar effect from these two complementary 

 colours at sunset when the clouds are flushed yellow 

 and orange in a blue sky. Also in the beech woods 

 in October the sight of the great trees in their magni- 

 ficent red-gold foliage would not impress us so deeply 

 but for the blue sky seen through and above the 

 wood. 



